The theme songs for the upcoming season have also been revealed.
The popular psychological thriller anime “Classroom of the Elite” is coming back this April with its 4th season. In a new trailer, it was revealed that Classroom of the Elite 4th Season: 2nd Year 1st Semester will air on 1 April, 2026. The premiere will be a 90-minute special encompassing the first four episodes of the season. The trailer also revealed the theme songs for the anime.
Classroom of the Elite Season 4 details
The new trailer shows the protagonist Ayanokōji and his classmates in their first semester as second year students. As new first years come in, things are going to get more interesting for the characters.
The opening theme song of the series is ‘MONSTER’ by Eir Aoi, while the ending theme song is ‘Liar Veil’ performed by ZAQ.
Previously, new voice actors were introduced as the voice of the first year students. The new characters include:
- Minako Satō as Tsubasa Nanase
- Hiroya Egashira as Kazuomi Hōsen
- Momoko Seto as Ichika Amasawa
- Shinnosuke Tokudome as Takuya Yagami
- Iori Saeki as Sakurako Tsubaki
- Shōgo Sakata as Riku Utsunomiya
The main returning cast of the anime includes:
- Shōya Chiba as Kiyotaka Ayanokōji
- Akari Kitō as Suzune Horikita
- Ayana Taketatsu as Kei Karuizawa
- Yurika Kubo as Kikyō Kushida
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Kakeru Ryūen
- Nao Tōyama as Honami Ichinose
- Rina Hidaka as Arisu Sakayanagi
Noriyuki Nomata directs the fourth season of the anime at Lerche. Yasushi Shigenobu and Kyōto Katsuya are writing the scripts with Shigenobu overseeing them. Maki Kōno designs the characters and Satoki Iida is the sound director. Masaru Yokoyama and Kana Hashiguchi are composing the music. Other staff members include:
- Art Setting: Satoru Hirayanagi
- Art Director: Hirofune Hane
- Colour Design: Mio Takekawa
- CG Director: Tomohiro Hirayama
- Director of Photography: Misato Sekiya
- Editing: Yukie Oikawa
- Sound Effects: Ijo Okuda
The anime is based on the popular light novel series written by Shōgo Kinugasa and illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose. The first parts of the novel series were published from May 2015 to September 2019 under Media Factory’s MF Bunko J imprint. The sequel Classroom of the Elite: Year 2, was published from January 2020 to November 2024. The upcoming season of the anime is based on this sequel. The latest sequel of the novel is titled Classroom of the Elite: Year 3, and it began publishing in March 2025. The series also has a manga adaptation by Yuyu Ichino.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases the novel in English, and describes the second year story as:
As Ayanokōji and his classmates begin their second year at the Advanced Nurturing High School, they’re greeted by a fresh gauntlet of exams and a fresh batch of rather unique first-year students. They’ll have to get to know each other quickly, because the first special exam pairs the first-years with the second-years on a written test—with only the second-years facing expulsion if their team performs poorly! Worse yet? It seems one of the new first-years is also from the White Room. Can Ayanokouji avoid expulsion while sussing out the identity of this hidden foe?